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Obsessed with extremely strenuous physical conditioning, some people have withdrawn into themselves, into a personal world of relentless physical exertion. Their problem, like that of a workaholic, is not the goal pursued, but the exclusivity and single-mindedness with which it is pursued. We have even had to create a new medical specialty, just to treat all the damage we inflict upon ourselves in our over-eager pursuit of fitness...
...past three decades, Author Anthony Burgess has produced a truly stupendous volume of writing. The number of his novels now approaches 30. There have also been more than 20 other books, including nonfiction, literary criticism, biography, children's stories, poems, plays and translations, not to mention screenplays and a relentless stream of uncollected reviews and journalistic pieces. This frenzy of production has made the author famous and, paradoxically, a tad unwelcome. Readers and reviewers, confronted regularly with someone who makes himself impossible to ignore, are likely to decide to do just that. A new Burgess? Never mind; let it pass...
...world that often cowered before him, he was "Mr. Oil," the very symbol of what many viewed as Arab rapaciousness and relentless resolve to strangle the West. As the chief strategist and unofficial spokesman of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for more than two decades, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani could seemingly drive oil prices -- and the global economy -- up or down at will. A few words from the unfailingly suave sheik could make government officials shudder and cause stock markets from New York City to New Delhi to fall. With gallows humor, wags depicted OPEC at the height...
...antiapartheid activists was the selling off of stocks and bonds issued by firms doing business in South Africa. At least 15 states, including New York and California, and 116 colleges and universities have either completed or announced plans to sell their stock in companies with South African holdings. These relentless campaigns eventually had an effect. "Many chief executives are tired of being hassled by the protests and the divestment campaigns," says Stephen Blank, senior associate at New York's Multinational Strategies consulting firm. "This is not the kind of publicity they want." Some firms might have endured the hassle factor...
...graduate student in zoology, doing field work in Central America, living in Rome and attending medical school, these stories document in theme--rather than form--a disenchantment with sameness. The thematic concerns are all the same. The stories all speak of restless students who are usually also relentless travelers. You get the feeling there are only a few real characters, chopped up and shooed into all the stories...